blog/data/2013-02-02-bitcoin.txt

   1 Title: Bitcoin GUI now available from Debian/unstable (and Ubuntu/raring)
   2 Tags: english, debian, bitcoin
   3 Date: 2013-02-02 09:00
   4
   5 <p>My
   6 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_backport_bitcoin_qt_version_0_7_2_2_to_Debian_Squeeze.html">last
   7 bitcoin related blog post</a> mentioned that the new
   8 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/bitcoin">bitcoin package</a> for
   9 Debian was waiting in NEW.  It was accepted by the Debian ftp-masters
  10 2013-01-19, and have been available in unstable since then.  It was
  11 automatically copied to Ubuntu, and is available in their Raring
  12 version too.</p>
  13
  14 <p>But there is a strange problem with the build that block this new
  15 version from being available on the i386 and kfreebsd-i386
  16 architectures.  For some strange reason, the autobuilders in Debian
  17 for these architectures fail to run the test suite on these
  18 architectures (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/672524">BTS #672524</a>).
  19 We are so far unable to reproduce it when building it manually, and
  20 no-one have been able to propose a fix.  If you got an idea what is
  21 failing, please let us know via the BTS.</p>
  22
  23 <p>One feature that is annoying me with of the bitcoin client, because
  24 I often run low on disk space, is the fact that the client will exit
  25 if it run short on space (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/696715">BTS
  26 #696715</a>).  So make sure you have enough disk space when you run
  27 it. :)</p>
  28
  29 <p>As usual, if you use bitcoin and want to show your support of my
  30 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
  31 <b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>